Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
Alert City armed police personnel escorting Parappana Agrahara prison inmates foiled an attempt of a burkha clad woman trying to hand over a Mobile phone to the one of the under trail prisoner who had come along with others to appear before the court on Saturday.
The escort team accompanied 38 UTPs in a van and brought them to city civil and session court to produced them before the court for hearing .
While they were waiting for their turn sitting inside the van outside the court,an unidentified woman wearing burkha appearted and started moving suspiciously around the vehicle.
Lokesh,Assistant Reserve Sub Inspector,CAR South, noticed the suspcious behavior and confronted her . The woman sensing danger fled away after throwing a pack she was holding .
Lokesh alerted his senior Suresh and the duo checked the package to find a mobile phone with a SIM card ready to be used, instead of a explosive substance which they thought .
The phone was later handed over to the jurisdictional police station along with a complaint against unknown woman to trace her and take legal action for trying to smuggle the phone,a banned item inside the prison through an inmate.
Based on the complaint the police have registered a case under various sections of the Karnataka Prison Act and trying to track down the accused based on the SIM number.
